Caroline O’Neill’s hornpipe

Not so many four-part hornpipes around. I’ve taken a version played locally (Bob Taylor’s) and replaced triplets and accidentals with straight eighths.

The version in TuneArch/Fiddlers‘ Companion is straight from O’Neill’s: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Caroline_O%27Neill%27s_Hornpipe

Just heard a great version of this tune played by Francis Cunningham and Eimear Coughlan at the 2022 Social Éigse at last year’s fleadh. There’s no commercial recording, but try this link to last night’s ‘Céili House’ in RTE Radio 1, which is where I heard it: it’s at 39:00-42:20

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/ceili-house/programmes/2023/0805/1398384-ceili-house-saturday-5-august-2023/

There’s also a recording of Finbarr Dwyer playing it with ‘The New Century’ on Topic’s Voice of the People 3CD set “It Was Great Altogether” - The Continuing Tradition of Irish Music in London.